Who killed Jesse James?
The bank robber Jesse James was shot in the back of the head by his reward-seeking cousin, Robert Ford, on April 3, 1882.
James was 34 at the time of his death.
When the Civil War broke out, a West Point graduate, Ulysses S. Grant (1822-85) had fallen into alcoholism and hard times after his service in the Mexican War. He was working as a clerk in his father’s leather shop in Galena, Illinois, when the Civil War began. Obtaining a commission as a colonel of volunteers,…
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John Tyler was the first president to have a veto overridden by Congress in 1845.
The first labor strike in the United States took place in 1776, in New York, when members of the Journeymen Printers Union struck against their local shops.
Sir Francis Drake (1545-1596) was the first man to sail around the earth in 1580. His predecessor, Ferdinand Magellan (c. 1480-1521), started such a trip but died before the last of his ships finished the voyage.
Wall Street got its name from the wall built around Lower Manhattan in colonial times to protect cattle from Indian raids.